THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 727.— January, 1902. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM MID-WALES. 



By Prof. J. H. Salter, University College, Aberystwyth. 



The following notes, referring to the past two years, are in 

 continuation of similar ones relating to this neighbourhood which 

 have appeared in 'The Zoologist' from time to time (Zool. 1900, 

 pp. 76-79). 



On January 10th, 1900, Mr. F. T. Feilden, of Borth, de- 

 scribed to me a specimen of the " hairy " variety of the Waterhen 

 which he had obtained some time previously. He reported a 

 pair of Red-necked Grebes upon the Dovey during the previous 

 October. One of them was shot, but not retrieved. On 

 November 9th the survivor was seen in company with Dab- 

 chicks and a Merganser. Further up the Bay, off the Merioneth- 

 shire coast, Mr. G. H. Caton-Haigh finds the Eared Grebe 

 by no means uncommon when on the spring passage, but 

 he has never met with the Red-necked Grebe. Col. Feilden 

 obtained a Bittern, an old male bird, upon January 8th. In 

 February " a large brown Harrier," either a Marsh-Harrier 

 or Ring-tail, was seen quartering over the Bog upon several 

 occasions. 



On March 3rd Oystercatchers and Curlew were extremely 

 noisy after dark. 



Zool. 4th ser. vol. VI., January, 1902. b 



